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A Brief Comment on Prison Reform in De-Christianized Society St Thomas More once wrote a letter to console his daughter before his execution. He drew out a lengthy allergy of prison—like nature of life, and God-as- the-executioner, given the fact of certain pain of death. He argues that the degree of restriction while waiting for execution does not change the fact of the punishment at the end. The man in prison has limited physical freedom, but none the less enjoys the same freedom to meet hi...

A Brief Deconstruction of America’s Leviathan INTRODUCTION Recently, I had cause to consider the following two—part question: The goals of criminal punishment include retribution (giving people what they deserve), deterrence (discouraging future crimes), and rehabilitation (improving behavior). What purpose, if any, has your time in prison served? Should any of these purposes be emphasized more? At first, its sophomoric quality invited a dismissive chuckle but a second reading encouraged a mo...

Abuse of Discretion By K.D. Welch Abuse of power is abuse of power, "regardless" of whether the "Victim" is an Animal, an Criminal or those "Incarcerated"! The great cruel, inhumane, inhospitable E.S.P. in Northern, NV, whom is there "not" afraid of the Ely, NV officials & their vile towns creation of ESP max facility? The ruling families here most born & raised in Ely, NV, control w power ESP & (all) within this town's <perimeter&gt...

An Almost Love Story When Olivia Martin moved into the PC unit, she could have passed for a woman: ﬁve feet nine, slender, with smooth brown skin and braided black hair, her walk feminine. I received advanced knowledge about Olivia from CO Romer. Romer said she had hormone shots before her incarceration, which accounted for her womanly chest. Somehow she was also able to maintain red lips, though cosmetics were not available in the men’s prisons. That was one of her little secrets. But Olivia...

Angels Have Names there are many things which are evident according to the senses, for which an explanation cannot be given on the basis of what Aristotle teaches... certain phenomena which do not seem capable of taking place except through some intellectual substance.” Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Separate Substances, 2,11 broc-/(16.5 5 We were doing bodies in the dirt of the parking lot in front of the cathedral, when my companion stopped and noticed our third party was gone. We were looking...

Big Sis, Slim the Wanna-Be, and the Hole Working through the stacks of paperwork on my desk when I’m interrupted by a phone call. “Salomon” I said, into the telephone receiver. A female voice replied, “Yes, I’m calling for Mike, Mike Shaffer.” “And your name is?” I ask. “I’m Mary Shaffer, his sister. I heard he’s in the hole. I want to know if he’s ok. Can he make calls?” Her brother, inmate Shaffer is a 21-year-old inmate, a wanna-be in Pri$neyland, a fresh recruit in the white supremacy gan...

Crime + Punishment By J. Carr 2-18-12 Saturday The history of crime is one in which perceptions, ideologies, oracles and so on determined just who was felonious, and who wasn't. The punishment, often in misguided ministrations, burgeoned upon a possible criminal act itself? It is easy to sit from without the spectrum of good and evil, and pronounce a penalty for offenses, it is compounded hell to walk the road of [actual?] retribution. Jesus said it best of the executors of purported jus...

Crooks The inmate cook can deftly skim sugar and yeast off the top of a recipe, hide it and take it back to his cell for prison-made alcohol, “pruno.” He can ﬁnd ways of sifting sugar into a kitchen sink, then recover it when the coast is clear. He can hide a wad of dough in his pants, then take it back to his house for yeast in his brew. The cunning inmate will carefully look over his shoulder, or enlist another inmate as a lookout. He knows making pruno is against the rules, but believes it...

Jerry J. McDonough Dear KJCIs February 24, 2009 As I lie upon my back, my arms folded across my chest like a funereal corpse, one elbow touches the cold, concrete wall; the other hangs off the edge of my narrow prison bunk. Sleep does not come easily. The din is nearly constant. Inmates who couldn't give a rip about consideration for others are engaged in stereo wars. One blasts rap as loudly as his C D player can go. Across the tier, a death metal fan tries to drown out the other stereo...

Dahn Shaulis 8250 North Grand Canyon Dr. #1024 Las Vegas, NV 89166 dahnshaulis@netzero.com Death Notiﬁcation At Northeast State Prison, one-third of the inmates are in prison for life. Many others are in for a long stretch—-two decades or more. Felix Chacon was one of those inmates: in prison for a long time, but possibly not forever. Like most inmates, I didn’t know much about him other than his crime report: a second degree murder, gang-related, requiring at least twenty years in prison. Ch...

It was Friday afternoon. I was working through my paperwork and computer entries when I heard the steel door crash. An inmate ran into the activity room below my ofﬁce. A young Black man, with blue jeans so big he had to hold them up while he walked. He fumbled with a large full garbage bag, which I found out later, was everything he owned. The young inmate anxiously looked out the thin window in the room, then rushed to my second ﬂoor ofﬁce door I called the control officer and asked what th...

Essay: Number 2 For Blacks and Latinos... Is Incarceration the New Modern Day Slavery for People of Color? In the 1800s slavery was big business for the United States of America, until the Civil War emerged. During the early 1700s, a slave trader from the southern cotton plantations of America was able to step off any boat into the hot continent of West Africa, and communicate with a village chief leader about - the buying and selling of blacks for profit - prior to the American Civil War. Th...

4-8-10 -P. 1.- James Carr, NV HELLO FOLKS, I SAW YOUR ADVERTISEMENT IN THE ARA NEWSLETTER THAT I GET IN THE MAIL. TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH I AM SURPRISED THIS ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T CONFISCATE THE NEWSLETTER? I AM A FIFTY FIVE YEARS OF AGE, HALF BLACK, ONE QUARTER INDIAN, OR NATIVE AMERICAN, ONE QUARTER WHITE INMATE AT ELY, NEVADA. IT IS A SMALL MINING TOWN IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. THE PRISON SETS AT AN ELEVATION OF ABOUT 6800’ ABOVE SEA LEVEL, SO IT SNOWS A BIT FROM EARLY OCTOBER ...

James Carr Nevada NO TITLE Hello, How is everyone at the Fourth City? I am going to contribute to the cause of showing societies exactly what it's like to be on the inside. I've done a total of about thirty six years in prison now, I'm just at about 24 yrs, on my present term. I was given lives without parole, all running concurrent, all of my crimes that I've ever done were theft and burglaries, there is no violence, or sexual crimes [period?]. I was given life, without b...

K.D. Welch Nevada Humanity Dear (people), why is it (not) understood that even by an huge % of (US) in (Freedom) is also (Affected) by the (Huge Disproportionate) #'s of us, whom are (Incarcerated)??; (effect's) (you all); not under this circumstance? Because "Today" it's not about committing an Crime or Living Illegally; but Racism is Alive, but on another end RACE matters Not, as All whom are found within the (policial designated) area's (ARE & will & h...

APWA, I have been incarcerated here at FMWCC since 2013. I will not be considered for release to go home until 2018. This is my 5th time in prison, 3 times in Chowchilla, Calif. and now twice here in Las Vegas, Nevada. My first time in prison was in 1992, and this time will be my last. You would think with all the money that Nevada generates from the casino's FMWCC would offer rehabilitation classes or even college classes. A little history about FMWCC...this prison opened September 1997...

Dahn Shaulis Nevada Let the Side Show Begin Late morning in the cell block. I'm in my office with the bottomless pile of paperwork, scribbling responses to requests for information. The inmates have been served lunch. The food slots on the cell doors are closed, locked. The rotunda lights are turned off. When I walk onto the tier again, and pass by the cells, I smell corndogs. Many of the cells, inmate ”houses,” appear dark. Many cover their cell windows with towels, insulating themselve...

My Destiny, My Dream Essay: Number 1 Destiny: Definition - Something to which a person is destined: Fortune a predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency. Dream: Definition - A visionary creation of the imagination: a strongly desired goal or purpose. Sounds like an interesting topic, huh? It is when you live every moment of your life chasing whatever is meant for you life to unfold or be. I would like to share a few phrases and quotes before I begin this e...

No Need to Know The embarrassing and enlightening lessons of prison work build over years. But most prison workers are so caught up in the day-to-day, so lazy, incurious, or afraid, they miss the bigger dramas. Some have been burned for doing more than the minimum. Caseworker White tells me, “I used to be interested in what was going on, but that just increases your work. You still get paid the same.” Others are unwitting dupes, victims of lies and secrets. At Eureka max, S/CO Romer told me “...

Dahn Shaulis 8250 North Grand Canyon Dr. #1024 Las Vegas, NV 89166 702-658-5019 dahnshaulis@netzero.com Palido y Los Mexicanos As I glance away from my desk, I see yet another one at my ofﬁce door. It’s Denzin. He’s an Anglo inmate in his early 20’s, with a thin mustache and goutee, a member of a local Latino gang, the Macho Lokos. I only know him because of his gang afﬁliation and because I had recently seen him for his six-month classiﬁcation review. His fellow gang members, his homies, cal...

Voices Through the Walls RE: Reflection on the work of dealing with time... Curtis L. Downing, Indian Springs, Nevada In the years that I've been incarcerated and reflecting on them, so many things come to mind and almost so fast that, I can hardly write fast enough to get my thoughts on paper. This because I've experienced so much, and much of what has been negative, and seems to be getting worse. I am thankful to God that, over these many years I am able to keep an attitude of gra...